Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-25
PACIFIC GROVE.
THE PEERLESS SEASIDE RESORT
FOR SUMNER AND WINTER.
Grand Credit Sale of 1,4OO Choice
Residence Lots by Auction-Op-
portunity for Investments.

attention and securing public confidence in
their healthiulness and restfalEess. But
not one among them all is so strong in nat
ural beauty, aud features addressed to the
taste, intelligence and moral character as
PACIFIC GROVE RETREAT,
Upon the Bay of Monteres, The bay is
glorious sheet of water twenty eight miles
in breadth. and in that esuable belt where
there is winterless wister. and all tie
charms and delights cf seaside summer,
free from exposure, hest or humidity. For
boating, yachting, bathing aud fishing, it is
the one chief place ef invitation upon all
the coast. Its shoresare rich in picturesque
scenery, venerable with historic recollec-
tons, and spots dear to pioneer memories,
and to the lovers of messy rocks, rugged
shores, pine-cla6 slopes, pebbly beaches,
gushing springs, lofty trees, inspiring hills,
and beautiful 6ales, there is no section in
all California chat in so small compass
presents SO many charms. Upon the
choicest spot;n all the region of Monterey
bay, just pace, so to speak, from thecross
marking the spot where
JUNIPERo SIERRA
Landed, from the fort Fremont erected the
ruins of the first capitol bailding of Cali
fornia; the restored church of Carmelo
Mission; the old Catholic Church built in
1894; the cemetery where slumbers the
pioneer franciscan padres, and other his.
toricspots, is great grove of noble resin
Gus trees clothing and sheltering broad
gentle slope to the rocky beach Of the bay
Within this grove is a town, and not q
town-a city, and not a city. That is to
say, here are some hundreds of handsome
houses-some rising to the dignity of man
sions, some merely coy summer cottages
where, from summer to summer and win
ter to winter, from two to three thousand
people assemble to rest.
SOME YEARS AGO
Some devout people, who desired recreation
without registering; rest away from home
with home surroundings pleasure with
out intoxication; society without need fol
the arm of police protection, conceived the
idea of taking this place and founding
here summer and winter resort. from
which liquors should be excluded, anc
where the saloon and the card-table should
be unknown. The idea was one that a
once took, and Pacific Grove Retreat in
side of two years became noted all over
the land as the one summer resort from
which vice was excluded wholly, in which
intoxication was unknown, and where tn,
rattle of the gamblers dice-box was neye
heard
FROM THAT TINE
To this the place has grown in popularity
until, as we say, in the summer thousand,
make it their dwelling place, and in wintel
hundreds prefer it TO any othev residence
The original projectors laid the place off il
blocks and lots, and these were sold with
conditions as to into-icants and cards at
tached. In every case the lot buver ha.
found his property to have appreciated
upon his hands, and to have been, as a mer,
money mat a sound and paying invest
ment. Perrin. isno better test of the valu,
of the resort could be made than thi.
financial, one when
THE LONG BRANCH OF THE COAST"
Besides being the most delightful summe,
and winter resort on this side of the con
tinent, also becomes q desirable place fol
real estate investment, and business ant
pleasure meet in a mutual embrace Th,
fact is, that this is the only place of it.
character on the Pacific. 1t is so distinc
lively moral in tone. without being often
siyeiy partisan in religion; so pure in il:
surroundings, without being strait-laced
so safe for youth, without being repressiye
of natural buOyancy, that it stands out as
the one bold
BRILLIANT EXAMPLE
OF summer resort combining all good
things, all pure things, and excluding all
vicious things, and all that tends to con.
taminate and debase. This distinctivene s:
will forever make it the one great leading
resort for people entertaining high moral
convictions, and devoted to religion.
thoughts. At the same time, those not de-
voted TO religious contemplation never
find at Pacific Resort any prominence given
10 the religious element that at all infringes
upon perfect freedom within the walks
of good breeding, or that intrudes itsel
into the affairs of those not inviting it. Hers
annual conventions and from time to time
Sunday school and other religious organi-
cations have their reunions. From sum-
mer camp the place has grown to be a
town OF broad, shaded streets and hundreds
OF beautiful houses; and yet strange as it
may seem, all the distinctiveness of rural
surroundings and locality are retained Il
is 8 town without the dust, and rattle, and
clamor, and business, or trials and tempta-
tons of town it is a city without a solitary
distinctive feature of the city, save that OF
population, and in that it is peculiar, since
the population is selected, and there is
neither want nor suffering, nor poverty
nor privation, nor appeals to the charitable
impulses or scenes 20 try the sympathies
THE CLIMATE
Is not surpassed in the world. For sum
mer visitors il is braeing, for winter visitors
and for invalids it is equable, pure and in
vigoraiing in atmosphere and temperature
Sometimes there is a little fog, sometimes
sharp breeze, but never the one nor the
other that the most delicate may not face.
There is tone in the atmosphere that op-
crates upon one as old wine upon the
feeble. 1t quickens the brain while il
qulets the nerves, contradictory as that
may appear. II Will, nevertheless, be testi-
he'd to by alfwho have sojourned there.
The resinous tinge of the air is healing to
the lungs; the soft salt breezes are exhil-
araiing; the gentle warmth of the sun
inviting to outdoor exercise, and baths OF
light. The dryness Of the atmosphere is a
guarantee against malaria, and its saline
quality assurance of its purity. Compared
with the most favored parts of France,
Italy, Florida and of California. its temper
AZURE is the most even and delightful.
SPLENDID HOTEL
Has just been erected at the Grove, that all
who do not wish to dwell beneath
cottage roof may enjoy the comforts
of a first-class hosiery. Here, too. is a
stable stocked with the best horses for pur-
suit of the drives about the peninsula-and
such drives Near by, on one hand. is old
Monterey, with its quaint buildings and
rich historic memories. and just beyond, a
half mile further east, is
BEL MONTE,
The most famous landscape garden in
America, with its inclosed hot and temper
ate baths; lis flat, sandy, bathing beach /;
Its beautiful avenues and mazes, and noble
parks, and where the new Del Monte Hotel
IS now being erected. On the other hand
is the magnificent lighthouse road. and the
road about the peninsula, by which you
reach Point Aulon, the lighthouse. Point
PInos, and along the ocean side southwark